... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 38) Winter 1999 Last | Contents | Next Issue 38 The dark side of Washington: Seymour Hersh and the Kennedy legacy Paul Todd Seymour M. Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot (Boston: Little Brown, 1997) Seymour Hersh is one of those figures with no real equivalent in British journalism. For one thing, the budgets, the armies of fact-checkers and, indeed, the market for this sort of extended politico-analytical foray just does not exist over here. Writing from a New York Times 'liberal' perspective, he remains - in contrast to Chomsky, Cockburn and ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 39) Summer 2000 Last | Contents | Next Issue 39 'A Most Extraordinary Case'Malcolm Kennedy says his telephones, post and e-mail are being interfered with. His attempts to seek answers have left him in a bureaucratic maze. Jane Affleck Background 'A most extraordinary case' said Michael Mansfield QC, describing the events at Hammersmith Police Station on the night of December 23/24 1990. Two men - Patrick Quinn, and, later, Malcolm Kennedy - were arrested and put in the same police cell for drunkenness, and Quinn was later found dead with severe injuries. Kennedy, Kennedy...

... Malcolm Kennedy (1946-2013) Mark Metcalf A victim of a grotesque miscarriage of justice has died aged 67. Malcolm Kennedy will go to his grave having been unable to overturn his conviction for the manslaughter of Patrick Quinn in Hammersmith Police Station on Christmas Eve 1990. Quinn certainly was slaughtered. All but one of his ribs were broken, his heart and spleen were crushed and his face pulped in a vicious, brutal attack that left him dead in a police cell where both men had been placed after being separately arrested for being drunk. Middle-aged and unfit, Kennedy had no previous history of violence but according to the police he had woken from his drunken ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 10) January 1986 Last | Contents | Next Issue 10 Publications The Kennedys: An American Drama Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Pan Books, London 1985) JFK:The Presidency of John F. Kennedy Herbert S. Parmet (Penguin Books, London 1984) Kennedy assassination buffs - and I confess to being one in a very small way - can't resist books about the Kennedys even when they suspect there will be nothing, not a fragment, of interest about the assassination in them. The books by Parmet and Collier and Horowitz looked like being a couple of duds, but weren't quite that ...

... . He is also a scholar of the post-war history of US involvement in S.E . Asia. (See, for example, his wonderful book The War Conspiracy (US 1972) and his essay in Volume 5 of the Gavel Edition of The Pentagon Papers) But he is probably best known for his writing on the Kennedy assassination. The 1978 Penguin book, The Assassinations contains two of his essays on that subject, and they are, in my opinion, the best writing on the assassination that has been published. I have to put it that way because Scott's 'magnum opus' on the assassination, The Dallas Conspiracy, has never found a publisher. ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 24) December 1992 Last | Contents | Next Issue 24 Some Notes on Occult Irrationalism and the Kennedy Assassination Scott van Wynsberghe When I began studying the Kennedy assassination, back in 1983, my naivety was considerable. It would be a few years before I fully hooked into the diffuse network of assassination researchers, and my hit-and-miss efforts to locate that fraternity produced some bizarre results during the 1985-87 period. Consulting periodical directories and other sources, I collected intriguing references to journals with the word 'conspiracy' in their titles. Silly me, I actually thought someone using that word ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 51) Summer 2006 Last | Contents | Next Issue 51 Malcolm Kennedy: Application to European Court of Human Rights Jane Affleck Earlier articles in Lobster (issues 39 , 41 , 43 , 45 , 49 ) have followed Malcolm Kennedy's case. The human rights organisation, Liberty, took his complaint about interference with his communications and other forms of surveillance and harassment, to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the body set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) to hear complaints relating to conduct by the Security and Intelligence agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping. It ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 41) Summer 2001 Last | Contents | Next Issue 41 The Malcolm Kennedy Case - Update Jane Affleck Malcolm Kennedy believes his telephones, email and post are being interfered with. His attempts to obtain answers have met with brick walls, and his situation has been described as Kafkaesque. Soon his complaint will be one of the first to be heard by the recently established Investigatory Powers Tribunal. Background Last Summer, Lobster drew attention to the case of Malcolm Kennedy. (1 ) Kennedy served four and a half years of a nine year prison sentence after being found guilty of the manslaughter of Patrick Quinn ...

... is going to change' JFK and the Unspeakable: Why he died and why it matters James W. Douglass Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2008, h/b , $30.00 Reviewed by Michael Carlson I am writing this immediately after Barack Obama's victory in the US Presidential election, almost half a century after John Kennedy became the first, and thus far only, Roman Catholic to capture the office. The 1960 election is the first I remember clearly, and the issue of Kennedy's Catholicism, while perhaps not as dramatic as that of Obama's race, was a contentious one, and not just in my school-yard. It was presented more along ...